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To: Mephisto who wrote (11439)	10/28/1998 1:54:00 PM
From: Mephisto	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Excerpt from The New York Times, Tuesday, October 27, 1998 "The new Solaris program – Sun's version of the Unix operating system for its Sparc microprocessor and for Intel Corporation-based servers, has gained an increasing share of Unix business in the last year, largely based on the growth of the internet server and enterprise computing market." Microsoft is also trying to enter the high-end market with a new version of its Windows NT operating system. But its system has been delayed by more than a year, and there are industry reports that it continues to have problems." [The market is moving back towards Unix, according to the Times.] Also, Solaris 7 features a 64-bit addressing and as a result can handle vast amounts of data.] According to The New York Times"In the second quarter, Sun grew faster, at 37 percent than all other server vendors except Dell Computer. Sun passed Hewlett-Packard in the quarter to lead the industry in Unix revenue for the first time." Ed Zander, President of Sun said "he believed that Microsoft would have significant difficulties meeting stability levels needed for corporate use. The current version of NT is reported to have more than 35 million lines of code, increasing the chances of software errors that would make matters difficult for developers." [Can you imagine how difficult it will be to debug 35 million lines of code in the NT operating system?. Sun's version of Solaris WILL BEGIN SHIPMENTS ON TUESDAY. It will have 12 million to 13 million lines of code. While the current version of NT is reported to have more than 35 million lines of code, Sun has built Solaris around clusters so if there is an error, I've been told that it is relatively easy to track down and, fix the error that occurs In a cluster. I've also been told that an error in one cluster MAY NOT cause the entire system to crash. And MSFT, to repeat it again, MSFT has been unable to deliver their high-end version of NT]. "Clearly the Microsoft marketing machine has made NT a contender," said Andrew Allison, a computer-industry analyst, "but nobody in their right mind would use NT for critical applications at this point." [If we had a choice, I am not sure how many people in their right minds would choose Windows 95 either.]